Reply to: XL Airways - another one down....

[HairyArsedBloke]

Good - a shortage of the mouth breathing, football shirted, tattooed, ill educated and ill bred travellers will make my travel more pleasant.

What do you expect in steerage! You only have yourself to blame.

I hope for the 2 main reasons (sleazy jet and the other one)for finding English (see above) drunks abroad to also go under.

[bren586]

The end of cheap air travel.

Good - a shortage of the mouth breathing, football shirted, tattooed, ill educated and ill bred travellers will make my travel more pleasant.

I hope for the 2 main reasons (sleazy jet and the other one)for finding English (see above) drunks abroad to also go under.

[Churchill]

Looks like ALITALIA are heading the same way...

They can´t afford fuel after Sunday...

[Cyberman]

Once you're back you'll get a bill for repatriation... this isn't a charity you know...

That's true of course, but what if they refuse to pay ?

[Cyberman]

They don't. See the FO website

They do if they can't get back.

[Paddy]

Apologies for the misunderstanding.

the government have a duty to repatriate their own nationals.

They don't. See the FO website

[Cyberman]

True, but that is not what I was on about. Sorry for not being clearer.

I was refering to those that booked flights direct with the company and are now abroad. They are not covered by the ATOL protection and will have to find and fund their own way home.

Apologies for the misunderstanding.

Easyjet have offered to assist anybody for 75 quid per flight if they phone their number, and the government have a duty to repatriate their own nationals. There is a bit of inconvenience but if a company goes bust that is unavoidable.
The main thing though is to make sure that you get a full refund on your original booking which can be achieved via credit card.

[HairyArsedBloke]

Just pay by credit card. If the airline goes bust and you have paid over 100 quid you are entitled to a refund by the credit card company. I pay for all of my major purchases by this method for this reason and I am just amazed that people pay 1,000s by cheque with the risk that involves. It's jusr sheer ignorance, and costly ignorance !!


http://www.fool.co.uk/news/your-mone...d-changes.aspx

True, but that is not what I was on about. Sorry for not being clearer.

I was refering to those that booked flights direct with the company and are now abroad. They are not covered by the ATOL protection and will have to find and fund their own way home.

[Paddy]

never heard of XL before today....

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?im...%3Den%26sa%3DN

[basshead]

OK, they are probably unlikely to go bust

They are currently offering voluntary redundancy ahead of forced redundancy for middle to senior management.

[Cyberman]

I didn’t know about not being protected from being stranded if you book through an airlines website. I do this all the time with BA as part of their executive scheme. OK, they are probably unlikely to go bust, but I am going to have to think about my travel plans in the future.

Just pay by credit card. If the airline goes bust and you have paid over 100 quid you are entitled to a refund by the credit card company. I pay for all of my major purchases by this method for this reason and I am just amazed that people pay 1,000s by cheque with the risk that involves. It's jusr sheer ignorance, and costly ignorance !!


http://www.fool.co.uk/news/your-mone...d-changes.aspx

[HairyArsedBloke]

I didn’t know about not being protected from being stranded if you book through an airlines website. I do this all the time with BA as part of their executive scheme. OK, they are probably unlikely to go bust, but I am going to have to think about my travel plans in the future.

[Diver]

I wonder if Wxman booked with them

[Cyberman]

This will do wonders for B&Bs, campsites, Butlins etc in the UK.

[Diver]

The incident happened when the plane's tailskid touched the runway during the take off.

I wonder if there were any skid marks


IGMC